Re: Trickery with Getopt::Long (flag option, with optional integer arg)

Use the :i specifier. Refer to Summary of Option Specifications.

use warnings;
use strict;
use Getopt::Long;

my $arg = -1;
GetOptions('arg:i' => \$arg) or die;
print "$arg\n";
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Re^2: Trickery with Getopt::Long (flag option, with optional integer arg) by stevieb (Canon) on Aug 18, 2017 at 15:14 UTC
That's great and works exactly as I need, thanks toolic! I completely overlooked that in the docs. I was kind of thinking there had to be a way.	[reply]